Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others will, and they will not necessarily do it well.

Margaret MacMillan Quotes